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A mixed graph $G$ is a graph obtained from a simple undirected graph by orientating a subset of edges. $G$ is self-converse if it is isomorphic to the graph obtained from $G$ by reversing each directed edge. For two mixed graphs $G$ and $H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Wei Wang , Lihong Qiu , Jianguo Qian , Wei Wang

In this paper we introduce a product-like operation that generalizes the construction of generalized Sierpi\'nski graphs. Let $G,H$ be graphs and let $f: V(G) \to V(H)$ be a function. Then the Sierpi\'nski product of $G$ and $H$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Jurij Kovič , Tomaž Pisanski , Sara Sabrina Zemljič , Arjana Žitnik

Harary and Schwenk posed the problem forty years ago: Which graphs have distinct adjacency eigenvalues? In this paper, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for an Hermitian matrix with simple spectral radius and distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Xueliang Li , Jianfeng Wang , Qiongxiang Huang

A graph $G$ is $d$-distinguishable if there is a coloring of the vertices with $d$ colors so that only the trivial automorphism preserves the color classes. The smallest such $d$ is the distinguishing number, $\operatorname{Dist}(G)$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Debra Boutin , Sally Cockburn , Lauren Keough , Sarah Loeb , K. E. Perry , Puck Rombach

An independent set in a graph G is a set of vertices no two of which are joined by an edge. A vertex-weighted graph associates a weight with every vertex in the graph. A vertex-weighted graph G is called a unique independence…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-07-02 Farzad Didehvar , Ali D. Mehrabi , Fatemeh Raee B

A set of vertices $S$ \emph{resolves} a graph $G$ if every vertex is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in $S$. The \emph{metric dimension} of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a resolving set. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-01 J. Cáceres , C. Hernando , M. Mora , M. L. Puertas , I. M. Pelayo

We review the properties of eigenvectors for the graph Laplacian matrix, aiming at predicting a specific eigenvalue/vector from the geometry of the graph. After considering classical graphs for which the spectrum is known, we focus on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-23 J. -G. Caputo , A. Knippel

A {\it graph product} $G$ on a graph $\Gamma$ is a group defined as follows: For each vertex $v$ of $\Gamma$ there is a corresponding non-trivial group $G_v$. The group $G$ is the quotient of the free product of the $G_v$ by the commutation…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Michael Mihalik

Let $X$ be a graph on $v$ vertices with adjacency matrix $A$, and let let $S$ be a subset of its vertices with characteristic vector $z$. We say that the pair $(X,S)$ is controllable if the vectors $A^rz$ for $r=1,\ldots,v-1$ span…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-18 Chris Godsil

The study of graph vertex colorability from an algebraic perspective has introduced novel techniques and algorithms into the field. For instance, it is known that $k$-colorability of a graph $G$ is equivalent to the condition $1 \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-24 Christopher J. Hillar , Troels Windfeldt

The \emph{difference subgroup graph} $D(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is defined as the graph whose vertices are the non-trivial proper subgroups of $G$, with two distinct vertices $H$ and $K$ adjacent if and only if $\langle H, K \rangle = G$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Angsuman Das , Arnab Mandal , Labani Sarkar

The inverse eigenvalue problem of a graph $G$ studies the possible spectra of matrices associated with $G$, including as an important subproblem the possible nullities of such a matrix. Much research in this area to date has focused only on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Aida Abiad , Mary Flagg , H. Tracy Hall , Jephian C. -H. Lin , Bryan Shader

Assumed to be undirected, simple, and connected are all of the graphs in this study, and adjacency matrix $A$ serves as the associated matrix. In this paper we show that it is possible to relate a creation sequence for a type of cographs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Santanu Mandal , Ranjit Mehatari

This paper is the continuation of the research of the author and his colleagues of the {\it canonical} decomposition of graphs. The idea of the canonical decomposition is to define the binary operation on the set of graphs and to represent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Pavel Skums

The parameter $q(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix whose pattern is given by $G$. We introduce a novel graph product by which we construct new infinite families of graphs that achieve…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Eric Culver , Mark Kempton

A set of vertices $W$ {\em resolves} a graph $G$ if every vertex of $G$ is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in $W$. The {\em metric dimension} for $G$, denoted by $\dim(G)$, is the minimum cardinality of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Min Feng , Kaishun Wang

The utility of a matrix satisfying the Strong Spectral Property has been well established particularly in connection with the inverse eigenvalue problem for graphs. More recently the class of graphs in which all associated symmetric…

A graph $G$ is said to be $d$-distinguishable if there is a vertex coloring of $G$ with a set of $d$ colors which breaks all of the automorphisms of $G$ but the identity. We call the minimum $d$ for which a graph $G$ is $d$-distinguishiable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Aleksandra Gorzkowska , Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz

The tensor product of two graphs, $G$ and $H$, has a vertex set $V(G)\times V(H)$ and an edge between $(u,v)$ and $(u',v')$ iff both $u u' \in E(G)$ and $v v' \in E(H)$. Let $A(G)$ denote the limit of the independence ratios of tensor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Noga Alon , Eyal Lubetzky

A fundamental and challenging problem in spectral graph theory is to characterize which graphs are uniquely determined by their spectra. In Wang [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B, 122 (2017): 438-451], the author proved that an $n$-vertex graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Wei Wang , Wei Wang , Fuhai Zhu